One Year Blogger

Next week is full of celebrations: Valentine, Carnival, Olympiad, Birthday, and ONE YEAR BLOGGER! Therefore a rather nostalgic photo from the seventies: a 2x3 mtr collage I made for Vroom & Dreesman. (Smalls: movie Maasproject and exposition sportsfotos Sportzeichnung)

Haps - sunday morning

Not very exciting, but I spent the best week of my life here - 55 years ago.
1916 Ernemann Bob 0, 120 RolleiRetro in this 9X12
Small pic: see comment below

Talking head

1 Young talking head on 40+ FP4 in 60+ Target 616. (The 80+ 2A-C 116 (see below) is mùch better! I suspect the "extra" lens - to make it a double meniscus.)

120 film in 116 Brownie No.2A Model C

This is a very remarkable photograph. First: look at the quality of this 80+ box! But there's more: the sticky-paper of that very old FP4 tore the film, it didn't fit in a drum so I had to develop it the victorian way: Rodinal in the dish, left hand up, right hand down etc. 10 minutes in total darkness and look: no scratches!

For instruction on 120 to 116 see erwinruys fotostream on flickr

Pinhole

After a lost and forgotten Hit, the bakelite Lubitel was my first. I still have the cardboard box and it seemed appropriate to make that a pinhole-camera. (Small picture, the blue one)

About snow

February, I'm looking out of my window: it's coming down! Snow. So: discussion. My point: ask any Inuit, Saami, painter or Dutch driver - snow is not white. And worse: I don't àlways want it to be! Not in photographs. A photo, for ME, is a composition in light and dark, and if, by chance, the darker part is a lamp, and the lighter part is the asphalt street: that's OK for me! I only see the composition. Mondriaan.

Jeroen did use a Y 1,5 filter on his 12 cm Macro Planar; TXP 320 two stops over (for white snow) in Ilfotec. I had the mon-chou-cake and 2 espressos.

MC Super Albinar

A last - this morning I tested Beb's 28mm Albinar on Giel's Praktica LTL3. 30+ and very romantic.